In this covenant God is Abraham's God ; even so he is our God under the gospel dispensation. ' For ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' 2 Cor. 6, 18. God extends his covenant with Abraham beyond the grave. Our Saviour said, ' Have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living,' Math. 22, 31 32. Christ disputed with the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection of the body ; and in order to prove that the dead shall rise, he refers to Abraham's covenant, wherein God is Abraham's God ; but because he is not the God of the dead, but of the living : but since Abraham died, he and all others who are in the same covenant, shall be raised up from the dead and clothed with immortality, and God shall be their God forever ; for it is written, ' And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.' Rev. 21, 3.

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